July 2011
3 posts
WatchNice afternoon on the farm with friends Missy and Greg.
I may be wrong but I doubt it. →
my sis…
May 2011
2 posts
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“I’ve noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author. “Notebook O,” The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945).
January 2011
1 post
On Race
I think you become an adult when you reach a point where you don’t need anybody underneath you. When you can look at yourself and say I’m okay the way I am. I don’t need anybody underneath me. One of the things that keeps my class of people from having any vision is race hatred. You’re so busy hating somebody else, you’re not gonna realize how beautiful you are and...
November 2010
2 posts
“Old Memories” (Vocal). Words and...
September 2010
1 post
Changing Accents
My first year as an undergraduate, I did a class presentation on the effect of geographic mobility on the retention of a local dialect. I had just moved to St. Augustine, Florida from Kings Ferry, Florida—only an hour and a half drive away, but worlds apart. Kings Ferry is rural; St. Augustine, I suppose could be classified as urban. It had a much higher population density, and it was both a...
August 2010
1 post
WatchThis is a project Leah Arsenault and I collaborated on in the spring of 2010 (while at Salt). We documented life on a dairy and meat farm in Topsham, Maine, through a 13-year-old boy’s eyes.
July 2009
1 post
Urban and Rural Classification →
June 2009
3 posts
The evolution of suburbs
“The history of suburban construction can be understood as the evolution of seven vernacular patterns. Building in borderlands began about 1820. Picturesque enclaves started around 1850 and streetcar buildouts around 1870. Mail-order and self-built suburbs arrived in 1900. Mass-produced, urban-scale “sitcom” suburbs appeared around 1940. Edge nodes coalesced around 1960. Rural...
Laurel Street, near Holly. Oregon Hill. June 2009.
October 2008
3 posts
Preserving Food →
I have a question for you.
But first… Some of you may know me already, but if I haven’t met you yet, my name is Kelley Libby. I’m a graduate student who rents at The Overlook. I guess you could say I’m a newcomer to Oregon Hill—been here about 15 months. In that time, I’ve come across a number of Oregon Hill citizens, both in the public writing and out in the neighborhood, who are tremendously...
September 2008
20 posts
The blade of a ploughshare
alaina:
‘Culture’ is said to be one of the two or three most complex words in the English language, and the term which is sometimes considered to be its opposite—nature—is commonly awarded the accolade of being the most complex of all. Yet though it is fashionable these days to see nature as a derivative of culture, culture, etymologically speaking, is a concept derived from nature. One of its...
Community Literacy Journal →
RichmondBizSense: A hike in bike use has riders... →
scfoj:
One of the better local articles that I have seen on this topic.
city audio guides →
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Guide to Guidebooks →
Smart City Radio →
“Smart City™ is a weekly, hour-long public radio talk show that takes an in-depth look at urban life, the people, places, ideas and trends shaping cities. Host Carol Coletta talks with national and international public policy experts, elected officials, economists, business leaders, artists, developers, planners and others for a penetrating discussion of urban issues.”
Patty at the...
Wanted: Examples of Creative Interpretive Guides
I’m particularly interested in guides for walking tours in urban settings.
Communitarianism →
Watchtba:
Maria Montessori. One of the great influences on alternative education. Since I’m interested in applying alternative educational principles in my classes you might find this interesting.
The National Association for Interpretation →
I’m interested in the creation of an interpretive guide of my neighborhood. I didn’t realize “Interpretation” is such an extensive field.
Developing an Interpretive Guide to Your Community →
VCUarts: Third Graders Ask "What is sculpting?" →
tba:
A beautiful working definition of sculpture by one of my favorite former teachers in the VCU Sculpture Department.
this is so great!
My Flickr Videos →
“The proper function of the organizer, in Alinsky’s view, is to identify...”
– Eli Goldblatt, on Saul Alinsky
Cowboy Junkies' "Oregon Hill" lyrics
Oregon Hill The hoods are up on Pine Street, rear ends lifted too The great-grandsons of General Robert E. Lee are making love with a little help from STP Their women on the porches comparing alibis Greasy eggs and bacon, bumper stickers aimed to start a fight, full gun racks, Confederate caps, if you want some ‘shine well, you can always find some more, but what I remember most is...
the Diggers →
thanks, Jason.
The Center for Land Use Interpretation →
tba:
(via wreckandsalvage)
August 2008
17 posts
“…any serious approach to community-building must devise ways to reroot...”
– John McKnight w/John Kretzmann, Community Organizing in the Eighties: Toward a Post-Alinsky Agenda
My people are "slow of thought"
I found this linguistic description of a person from the county where I grew up, in a book called the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS). This person’s mother is from King’s Ferry, the rural community where my family is from.
“About average intelligence; slow of thought. Dialect shows mixture of coastal and Midland (“wiregrass”) types;...
Seed Magazine →
science and culture.
via patty.
Magazines are dead you're next.
chewylives:
Slapshot reference anyone?
Anyway I’ve been thinking about magazines lately. Well the lack of magazines. I used to roll to Barnes & Nobles quite a bit and grab a few mags. I haven’t done that in maybe a year. There are a couple magazines I subscribe to, but I rarely read them all the way through like I used to.
Every piece of info I want is online. So why not just read it for...
A nightmare about development
I dreamt about Kings Ferry last night. That’s the rural community near the St. Marys River where I grew up and where I want to build a community center. In the dream, I read in a local newspaper article that a developer of cheap housing and strip malls from the nearby town of Hilliard planned to build a 400 billion dollar resort and retail shopping center on the river in Kings Ferry. I knew...